This is a video of a technician climbing up to the top of a transmission tower to do some maintenance work. I always assumed there were specific tools or safety precautions in place to protect them, but nope, they just climb up, dragging their toolbox on a rope behind them. No harnesses or anything. Well [...]...

In a push to get people to actually use their site, Twitter has unveiled a new site redesign with a dual panel layout allowing easier and more intuitive navigation. Now you can click on an individual tweet and see more info about it, as well as any replies or retweets. It makes a lot more [...]...

Other than the fact that this infographic is supposedly written in the future (September 20, 2010), it does provide an interesting insight into the plight of the trapped Chilean miners. Thirty three miners have three holes – their sole key to survival. No sun, fresh air, their whole world are these 3 holes. Some notes: [...]...

Man, I would have killed to hang out with the TMNT, back in the day. Hell even right now. If you stop to think about it, the whole concept of the show is so insanely crazy, it’s hard to see how anyone would have imagined that a show so outrageous would have been such a [...]...

A homeless man shot by police in Los Angeles was a French national and convicted criminal, the LA Times reported Tuesday, as protesters continued to voice anger at the killing. The newspaper identified the man, killed Sunday after a struggle with police caught on a video which went viral, as 39-year-old Charley Saturmin Robi...

WASHINGTON (AP) â In a direct challenge to the White House, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stood before Congress on Tuesday and bluntly warned the U.S. that an emerging nuclear agreement with Iran "paves Iran's path to the bomb." President Barack Obama pus...

Through their Tumblr HyperrealCG, artists David O'Reilly and Kim Laughton have duped a handful of media outlets with an irresistible premise: computer-generated images that are so precise, so finely detailed, that they are totally indistinguishable from works of photography. Because that's exactly what they are.Read more......

Various gossip outlets will have you believe that Adam Levine and Pharrell Williams are currently in a feud, partly because Pharrell has been "locking in" contestants on The Voice that would have otherwise joined Adam Levine's "team." I assure you that this is not true.Read more......

A technology teacher in Scotland has been "struck off" (read: fired) from his job at Ardrossan Academy in Ayrshire after it came out that he had been using foul language and frankly genius insults to agitate his students. In one instanceâamong many beautiful othersâhe told a student, "Shut up, I shagged your maw."Read more......

As promised, we have to go through a few more bouts of cold, icy weather before spring finally starts to settle into the country . This week will be an epic battle between cold and warm air, culminating in an ugly winter storm on Wednesday night and Thursday. It's like the weather has the flu: a sudden hot flash today and tomorrow, followed by miserable chills on Thursday and Friday. Read more......

Kristin Cavallari announced on Instagram this weekend that in addition to caring for her two toddler sons Camden and Jaxon , she will now protect and nurture one more helpless beingâa puppy. It's a German Shepherd, from the looks of it. Read more......

As expected , an initial release of the Justice Department's report from their civil rights investigation into the Ferguson, Mo. police department is damning, and concludes, the New York Times reports, that officers "have routinely violated the constitutional rights of the city's black residents." Read more...

A New Jersey police officer currently under investigation for fatally shooting a man who had his hands raised also blackmailed a woman into having rough, unprotected sex with him, the woman claims in a new civil suit.Read more......

The homeless man shot and killed by police officers on L.A.'s Skid Row this past Sunday has, until now, only been identified as "Africa." Sources inside the investigation of the shooting now tell the Los Angeles Times that the man was 39-year-old Charley Saturmin Robinet, a convicted bank robber and French national. http://gawker.com/graphic-video-... Read more......

This video is waaaayyy up; we feel blessed… or do we???
Big Sean linked up with Drake and Kanye West for his new song Blessings, and it's great!
The video, however, is pretty boring.
[ Related: Did Big Sean & Ariana Grande Do Some Serious Research Before Dissing Naya Rivera In Their New Song?! ]
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Talk about mumbo jumbo!
On Tuesday, hotshot Norwegian producer Cashmere Cat released a new song featuring Ariana Grande called Adore.
[ Related: Ariana Grande Bans Press From Concert! ]
The electronic artist not only helped create the new Kanye West song Wolves featuring Sia and Vic Mensa, he's also opening for Ari on her Honeymoon Tour!
The track is [...]...

This account will just make your head spin.
A new Bill Cosby accuser's story of how he allegedly sexually assaulted her after drugging her drink is horrifying.
According to Patricia, — who decided to keep her last name anonymous — Bill invited her to a dinner party in 1978 after they met at a conference… a dinner [...]...

Justin Bieber may have bitten off more than he could chew when he agreed to be the victim guest at a Comedy Central Roast on March 30th.
A LOT more.
This latest spot for the upcoming event mimics the Biebs' Calvin Klein campaign.
[ Photos: Justin Bieber Parties With A Hot Model For His 21st Birthday! ]
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Looks like Dean McDermott got chopped!
On Monday, Dean announced on Instagram that he'll no longer be the host of Chopped: Canada.
[ Related: Dean's Post-True Tori Gig Is Playing A Sex Offender On CSI! Ewww! ]
While it's unclear why the host of two years is leaving the show, Tori Spelling's hubby seemed positive despite the bad [...]...

And the award for best prank video ever goes to (opens fake envelope)… Mark David Christenson. By a landslide. Like seriously, we didn't even need to open the fake envelope in the first place.
That's right, in case you missed it, Mark, along with YouTube's New Media Rockstars, decided to walk through Hollywood on Oscars night [...]...

Part of the magic Disney seems to have captured to create their live action version of Cinderella was the casting of beautiful star Lily James.
But ever since the first trailer dropped, Lily has been getting a lot of criticism — not for her acting chops, but for her body!
[ Video: Cinderella Star Says Disney Went [...]...

Now that Lea Michele wrapped up filming for Glee, she seems to have a lot more time on her hands!
What better way to enjoy a day off than by shopping with your boy toy?!
The actress was seen leaving Whole Foods with her BF, Matthew Paetz, a cart full of yummy items, and a ton of [...]...

Now that Hugh Jackman is ready to keep playing Wolverine forever, he has an idea of where to sink his claws first!
Into Ryan Reynolds' face!
[ Related: Ryan Reynolds' Deadpool Has A Love Interest! ]
Sure, they met once before in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, but the less said about that film the better!
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Noel Gallagher is at it again!
The ex Oasis singer, who is now more well-known for his controversial comments, called out Taylor Swift in Rolling Stone for what he believes to be her lack of song writing skills.
[ Related: Harry And Noel Both Show Up At Pixie Geldof's Karaoke Birthday Party After 1D Diss! ]
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Drake did a little importing for his Australian tour -- flying in a hot chick -- from NY to keep him company. The "If You're Reading This It's Too Late" rapper was chilling at his hotel pool in Perth, Australia, wearing a smoking babe in…
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Kelly Osbourne's departure opened the floodgates ... Hollywood agents are scrambling to get their clients a shot at her "Fashion Police" seat -- but they'll have to get past Kathy Griffin first. Our sources at the network say it's been…
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Steve Francis can rest easy about his missing chain -- 'cause the rappers who were performing on the night he got jacked tell TMZ Sports they're on MISSION to get the necklace back to the NBA star. We broke the story ... Francis was on the…
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How much does confidence cost? If you're 50 Cent, about $1.6 million ... 'cause that's how much the hip-hop star says he's going to bet on his old frenemy Floyd Mayweather Jr. to beat Manny Pacquiao. 50 and his G-Unit runnin' mate Tony Yayo sat…
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Lou Ferrigno is angry at his brother (and you won't like him when he's angry) but instead of turning green ... he's skipping right to threatening a lawsuit over his bro's exercise equipment business. Lou and his brother Andrew had a legal…
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New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft is sitting front and center in the U.S. House chamber to support Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Kraft is sitting directly behind Netanyahu's wife, Sara ... while her husband addresses…
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You get a ride! YOU get a ride!! Everybody got a ride on Nick Cannon while he was partying in Jamaica ... and we got video of all the women who lined up to get a piece of him. Nick was at Susie's Cafe in Kingston last week when one woman…
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NBA legend Steve Francis was the victim of a violent chain snatching at a rap show in Houston this weekend ... and TMZ Sports has footage of the brazen attack. The 38-year-old, 3-time NBA All-Star was onstage with the Sauce Twinz -- a Houston…
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ESPN anchor Robert Flores is DOUBLING DOWN in his beef with Nick Young -- firing even more shots at the Lakers star ... after Young threatened him on Twitter yesterday. You know the backstory ... Flores trashed Nick's GF Iggy Azalea on the air by…
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According to people who wish things that aren’t true were true, Curt Schilling just made Twitter safe again for the good people.Â Last week, Schilling congratulated his daughter on Twitter for getting into Salve Regina college in Rhode Island which I believe involves being Catholic and quietlyÂ wishing transgendered people to Hades.Â Several lonely guysÂ who don’t like Curt […]...

Jaime King suffered three hundred and forty seven miscarriages to bring her latest baby to fruition. One could take the gestational hardship as a sign that it was time to click out to MalawiBabiesNow.com. Or that Taylor Swift would come to lay hands upon her unborn child and announce the Dark Lord of Allentown Adjacent […]...

Britney Spears lost a bit of her hair extension on stage like two hood rats yanking out weaves over their baby daddy.Â Broke assÂ Indian women gave their hair for you, Brit. Get right with your weave. Watch Britney’s shame. (Huffington Post) I love a woman who knows how to tug on her panties. (The Chive) Emily […]...

Bobbi Kristina isn’t heading into the afterlife without the assistance of those who helped her get there. Bobby Brown’s sisters are filming a reality show about their experiences suffering through their niece’s drowning and coma. You can’t imagine their anguish. Especially when they learned they’re not getting any of Bobbi’s twenty million. Her will calls […]...

I’m going to keep showing pictures of naked German women until somebody at Interpol sends me a threatening letter. This chick likes to paint herself and get naked next to the Brandenburg Gate as a reminder that we could easily go back to tyranny and oppression the day we stop letting chicks get naked and […]...

America’s Got Talent. But not necessarily enough to find American hosts for the America’s Got Talent show. I’m no jingoist, but if we’re pulling Howie Mandel out of our asses we might as well invite ISIS Toyota pickups to cruise down the pot-holed streets of our fruited plains. I’d keep Heidi Klum in the off-chance […]...

As a general rule, an onshore breeze negates the ability of cameras to capture clear images of topless women. Plus the salty spray tickles your nips. It’s a solid plan when you want to be seen, but save something for the rich guy who you will marry, convince to buy a power boat, and recite […]...

I don’t care if Justin Bieber devotes the remainder of his life to sweeping up leper skin in Calcutta, dudes who insist on being topless will never be saints, just douchebags. I’m talking to you, jogger for whom a t-shirt was adversely affecting your time around the block. Bieber celebrated his 21st birthday by doing […]...

According to the reverent Coach K, Duke basketball player Rasheed Sulaimon did not live up to the standards of conduct expected of a Duke student athlete. It’s unclear what those standards are precisely, but it seems serial rape is one of them because that’s what Sulaimon is going down for. Some are perplexed as to […]...

Cee Lo Green finished his community service with straight A-grades. Green wasÂ charged last summer with slipping ecstasy to his Craigslist Hot Women Seeking Fat Midgets date. The courtsÂ determined Green and the chick with smaller tits than Green fucked somewhat consensually. They also determined Green had a great time while his dateÂ was appraising his headboard for […]...

Community will get its 13-episode sixth season (and eventually, maybe a movie?) on Yahoo Screen October 19th March 17th, and now we have the first trailer. It looks like the gang are up to their usual Dan Harmon-written schemes, but it's still missin......

If you live in Washington, DC, and are a fan of Uber's family-focused option, you don't have to hand your phone over to the little ones to keep them busy during the ride. The transportation company is partnering with Fuhu to equip Uber Family commute......

Standalone streaming apps continue to surface, and it looks like NBC has one in the works just for comedy-loving cord cutters. According to a Wall Street Journal report, the network is building a subscription service in hopes of reaching younger view......

You knew it was going to happen -- just days after Pebble's Time smartwatch topped the company's previous Kickstarter record, it's now the most-funded Kickstarter project ever at more than $13.3 million. Almost all of the pledge money has gone toward......

While Google may be breaking pieces off of Google+, we wouldn't expect its profiles to go away anytime soon, since they're poised for a bigger tie-in with Gmail. The new Google Contacts setup "pools together all your contacts, circles, and the people......

The Nokia N1 tablet has quite a few people excited here at Mobile World Congress. If you're unfamiliar with Nokia's return to devices, it's a very familiar-looking Android tablet that you could buy today if you lived in China for just $250. This is t......

After blowing open the NSA's secret surveillance plans and spending the past few years in Russia, former NSA contractor Edward Snowden is now in talks with lawyers to make his way back to the U.S., reports Russia Today. But, according to his Russian ......

No one refers to video games as their "stories." Games tend to have a whole lot of sequels but they're hardly suited for serialized storytelling over a long period of time. Super Mario Bros. doesn't keep a thread running General Hospital style; the m......

CyberPowerPC's original Steam Machine plans didn't amount to much (the company ultimately turned them into Windows boxes), but it's back again for another round. Its recently established Syber division has revealed that it will launch no less than si......

You no longer have to carry an iPhone just to check out Square's restaurant delivery service, Caviar -- it's now available for Android. Like before, you can both order fine meals and track the couriers in real-time as they bring that dining to your d......

sciencehabit writes: A patch of woodland just north of Livingston, Louisiana, population 1893, isn't the first place you'd go looking for a breakthrough in physics. Yet it is here that physicists may fulfill perhaps the most spectacular prediction of Albert Einstein's theory of gravity, or general relativity. Structures here house the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), an ultrasensitive instrument that may soon detect ripples in space and time set off when neutron stars or black holes merge. Einstein himself predicted the existence of such gravitational waves nearly a century ago. But only now is the quest to detect them coming to a culmination. Physicists are finishing a $205 million rebuild of the detectors, known as Advanced LIGO, which should make them 10 times more sensitive and, they say, virtually ensure a detection.
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rolandw writes We have daily stand-ups and normally there is at least one person missing from the room. We relay via on-line chat but the sound quality is rubbish. The remote person sounds great via our speaker when they use a headset but they can't hear what is happening in the room. We need a wireless mic that copes with a large echoing room and will stop feedback. Can you recommend one? We're not an over-funded start-up so don't have an unlimited budget...
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msm1267 writes: For the nth time in the last couple of years, security experts are warning about a new Internet-scale vulnerability, this time in some popular SSL clients. The flaw allows an attacker to force clients to downgrade to weakened ciphers and break their supposedly encrypted communications through a man-in-the-middle attack. Researchers recently discovered that some SSL clients, including OpenSSL, will accept weak RSA keys–known as export-grade keys–without asking for those keys. Export-grade refers to 512-bit RSA keys, the key strength that was approved by the United States government for export overseas. This was an artifact from decades ago and it was thought that most servers and clients had long ago abandoned such weak ciphers. The vulnerability affects a variety of clients, most notably Apple's Safari browser.
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The K-Board won a "Best in Show" award at CES 2015. Plus, as Timothy said, "I always like pour and stomp demos." And it's totally cross-platform. If your computer, tablet or smartphone has a USB port and (almost) any kind of music software, it works. In theory, you could hook a K-Board to your Android or iOS device and use it to accompany yourself while you sing for spare change on a downtown corner. Or noodle around to get a handle on a theme you'll use in your next major symphony. Or...?
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New submitter Alessandro Zarrilli writes: Linux has been able do multipath routing for a long time: it means being able to have routes with multiple gateways and to use them in a (weighted) round-robin fashion. But Linux is missing a tool to actively monitor the state of internet uplinks and change the routing accordingly. Without it, from a LAN perspective, it's like having a RAID-0: just one uplink goes down and all of your LAN-to-WAN traffic goes down too. Documentation and examples on the subject are lacking; existing solutions are few and deeply integrated in firewall/routing specific distributions. To address these issues, a new standalone tool was just released: Fault Tolerant Router. It also includes a complete (iptables + ip policy routing) configuration generator.
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HughPickens.com writes: The Globe and Mail reports that Edward Snowden's Russian lawyer, Anatoly Kucherena, says the fugitive former U.S. spy agency contractor is working with American and German lawyers to return home. "I won't keep it secret that he wants to return back home. And we are doing everything possible now to solve this issue. There is a group of U.S. lawyers, there is also a group of German lawyers and I'm dealing with it on the Russian side." Kucherena added that Snowden is ready to return to the States, but on the condition that he is given a guarantee of a legal and impartial trial. The lawyer said Snowden had so far only received a guarantee from the U.S. Attorney General that he will not face the death penalty. Kucherena says Snowden is able to travel outside Russia since he has a three-year Russian residency permit, but "I suspect that as soon as he leaves Russia, he will be taken to the U.S. embassy."
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An anonymous reader writes Tim Hoettges, the CEO of the world's third-largest telecoms company, has called for Google and Facebook to be regulated in the same way that telcos are, declaring that "There is a convergence between over-the-top web companies and classic telcos" and "We need one level regulatory environment for us all." The Deutsche Telekom chief was speaking at Monday's Mobile World Congress, and further argued for a loosening of the current regulations which telcos operate under, in order to provide the infrastructure development that governments and policy bodies are asking of them. Hoettges' imprecation comes in the light of news about the latest Google Dance — an annual change in ranking criteria which boosts some businesses and ruins others. The case for and against regulating Google-level internet entities comes down to one question: who do you trust to 'not be evil'?
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Bennett Haselton writes: Vimeo and Youtube are pressured to remove a dark, fan-made "Power Rangers"
short film; Vimeo capitulated, while Youtube has so far left it up. I'm generally
against the overreach of copyright law, but in this case, how could anyone argue
the short film doesn't violate the rights of the franchise creator? And should
Vimeo and Youtube clarify their policies on the unauthorized use of copyrighted characters? Read on for the rest.
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An anonymous reader writes A vulnerability in the update mechanism for the wireless networks operated by GoPro cameras has allowed a security researcher to easily harvest over a 1,000 login credentials (including his own). The popular rugged, wearable cameras can be controlled via an app, but in order to do so the user has to connect to the camera's Wi-Fi network. Israel-based infosec expert Ilya Chernyakov discovered the flaw when he had to access the network of a friend's camera, but the friend forgot the login credentials.
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An anonymous reader writes On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to review a case involving the conviction of a man based solely on the analysis of his "inadvertently shed" DNA. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) argues that this tacit approval of the government's practice of collecting anyone's DNA anywhere without a warrant will lead to a future in which people's DNA are "entered into and checked against DNA databases and used to conduct pervasive surveillance."
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Google Contacts is getting an update. Contacts sits at the core of services like Gmail, Google+, Hangouts and others, but it never felt like Google was putting a lot of resources into this service. Now, it’s not only getting a new look, but also a couple of new features that will make using it a bit easier. The new look takes its cues from Google’s other services that have adopted… Read More
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Microsoft announced two new phones yesterday, the Lumia 640 and the Lumia 640 XL. The inexpensive devices are designed to handle global communications, built with dual-SIM slots and the like. They also included something curious: Free Office 365 for a year. The company currently offers a Surface bundle that includes Office 365, and a cheap HP laptop recently shipped with the same. I confirmed… Read More
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Apple’s first wearable is right around the corner, and the Apple Watch will likely debut along a very healthy selection of third-party apps. It might be hard to envision just how those apps will work, however, especially for potential buyers who don’t have the luxury of being able to wander over to an Apple Store and check one out in person. WatchAware, a new site from the… Read More
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42Floors, the startup that’s built a platform for finding and leasing commercial office space, has laid off around half of its staff as part of a plan to refocus on its core search business, TechCrunch has learned. A total of 14 people across 42Floors’ San Francisco and New York offices were let go today, we’re told. That’s around half of 42Floors’ workforce.… Read More
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Gradberry is launching today out of Y Combinator to connect companies with vetted technical talent. Candidates quickly build a talent profile, connecting their GitHub, online portfolios and projects, and LinkedIn account. The talent profile is then vetted by the Gradberry team and approved candidates are passed along to specific employers. Read More
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Twitter’s Digits, a developer-facing service launched last fall that offers a way to integrate a simpler, password-free login option into third-party mobile applications, has been expanded today with a pair of new features, including a friend finding function and two-step verification. While already Digits was offering a more secure way for users to log into apps by using their phone… Read More
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This week’s Droidcast is all about Mobile World Congress, where HTC unveiled some surprises in addition to the HTC One M9, and Samsung changed up its design strategy with a new take on the Galaxy that replaces boring old plastic with exciting metal and glass. Will the premium look make up for trade-offs in terms of user accessible storage and batteries, and can in-house processors push… Read More
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Apple will hire its contract security staff on a full-time basis, a decision that continues a nascent trend of technology giants reducing their use of external labor for non-technical roles. Google made a similar move with its security staff late last year.
According to a media report, Apple will bring “the majority” of its contractual security staffers in-house. Read More
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President Obama proposed in January the first federal standard for data breaches, requiring that companies notify customers of privacy-related breaches within 30 days of discovery. Other standards and regulations exist (47 states at last count had some form of regulation regarding breach disclosure), but there is currently no federal standard to act as a uniform baseline. Read More
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More than a week after the Academy Awards broadcast, people are still buzzing about Best Supporting Actress winner Patricia Arquetteâs acceptance speech, punctuated with a poignant and resounding call for wage equality and equal rights for women. Arquetteâs rallying cry struck a chord with both audience members and viewers at home — a reaction shot […] The post Opinion: How Women In STEM Can Close the Wage Equality Gap appeared first on WIRED....

Google has a bloatware problem on its Android phones. But now that it's going to be a mobile carrier, it could make everything that sucks go away. The post Forget The PC, The Real Crapware Problem Is on Android appeared first on WIRED....

As long as the waters of Alton Bay on Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire stay frozen, pilots can use the only FAA-certified, plowed ice runway in the continental US. The post Ice Runways Aren’t as Crazy as They Sound appeared first on WIRED....

It's getting harder to find a reason to buy a point-and-shoot camera anymore, but the Nikon Coolpix P900 makes its advantage clear: It as an 83X zoom lens. The post Nikon’s New Point and Shoot Has an Absurdly Long Zoom Range appeared first on WIRED....

Ikea has a new furniture line with built-in wireless charging. It's a step toward Qi ubiquity, but Qi's capabilities and IKEA's offerings are still limited. The post Ikea’s Wireless-Charging Table Won’t Spark a Revolution Yet appeared first on WIRED....

For PCH, Fabâs user base is a new kind of community that can prove the viability of the startups it incubates. The post PCH Buys Fab, as a Retail Outlet for Hardware Upstarts appeared first on WIRED....

The Very Best's "Let Go" isn't your standard-issue 8-bit-inspired music video. While it has all the fun and side-scrolling action of an 8-bit video, the clip also has something else: It was made out of beads. The post An Awesome 8-Bit Music Video Made Using Beads as Pixels appeared first on WIRED....

JAMBOX, the biggest sound. The smallest package. More Jam less Box: JAMBOX. It's the best little Speaker you've ever heard. One device lets you listen to all of your favorite audio-music, podcasts, video, apps, games, and more-from any phone, music player, tablet, or laptop. Take JAMBOX with you wherever you want audio-from room to room in the home or while on the go. Expires Mar 18, 2015...

It's a new week and the North American PlayStation Store's Weekly Deals has been refreshed. It features a publisher sale on Square Enix and 2K games. This is a great opportunity to grab titles like Tomb Raider, Sleeping Dogs, Drakengard 3, Borderlands 2, Bioshock Infinite, and more for cheap!
Here's a roundup of the some titles on sale:...

The new round of P&G BrandSaver coupons are now available! Here's your opportunity to save on popular P&G brands, such as Pantene, Covergirl, Pampers and more. Keep in mind that you can print just 30 coupons a month and each coupon can be printed only once. Check out some of the coupons available this round:
$2 off any 2 Olay Complete, Classic or Cleanser
$1 off any 2 Bounty 6 rol...

Origin.com has a new game available for free through their On The House promotion!
For a limited time only, you can download the popular strategy game, Theme Hospital, for free! This game was originally released back in 1997 and would normally cost $4.99. Anyone who is a fan of simulator games will enjoy this one as you'll get to design, build, and manage a hospital. Users on ...

New mobile games are available through the tenth Humble Mobile Bundle! There will be more games to come, but in the meantime, you can pay what you want for these six games:
Pay what you want for these games:
Buddy & Me
Lyne
Doodle Kingdom
Beat the average to unlock:
Sorcery! 2
King of Dragon pass
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The charities you'll be supporting this week are Extra Life/Children's Miracle Netw...

If you're looking to stock up on some rechargeable batteries, the ever popular Panasonic Eneloops are back on sale at Dell.ca for a limited time as part of their Red Hot Deals. Right now, you can pick up the ...

Here are this week's deals for Wacky Wednesday at IKEA. Remember, the prices are low but the deals are good on Wednesday only -- and quantities may be limited!
At IKEA North York, the Ulsberg Nightstand is $19.99 (down from $44.99)
At IKEA Calgary, the Ideell Plate is $0.10 (down from $4) and the Fantastisk Paper Napkins are $0.10 for a 50-pack (down from $3.99)
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For a limited time, the Microsoft Store is selling the Unlocked Nokia Lumia 1020 Windows Smartphone, Yellow for only $349.00 (Reg. $549.00)! Thatâs a terrific deal if youâre tired of being locked down in a contract and do not want an iOS or Android phone from the usual suspects. ...

Home births arenât for everyone. But for Ashley Bennett, having her second child at home in Medford was an opportunity to be encouraged and supported at a time when she, and many women, feel at their most vulnerable. The birth plan gave Ashleyand her husband, Mike, an array of delivery options, but, as always when it comes to birth, circumstances were unpredictable. The night Ashley went into labor, their toddler, Marin, came down with a fever. And Ashleyâs dreams of a water birth â in a giant portable tub â dried up when the new addition to the family, Isaac Douglas Bennett, arrived before the tub was filled. Besides doula Catherine McKeown-Lindsey and midwives Tara Kenny and Audra Karp, the Bennetts allowed Globe photographer Jessica Rinaldi to witness the familyâs private moments. At her four-month checkup, Ashley Bennett's 2-year-old daughter, Marin,

Saudi Arabiaâs oil exports have risen in February in response to stronger demand from customers. As OPECâs top producer battles for market share Reuters photographers around the globe have been photographing oil barrels to document how they are utilized once the fuel has been used. -- By ReutersMen stack oil barrels at a depot in Santo Domingo, Feb. 6, 2015. A group of resident Haitians sell the metal barrels for $9 each to be used as garbage bins, or made into grills or to store water. (Ricardo Rojas/Reuters)

The Chinese Lunar New Year began Feb. 19 ushering in the Year of the Sheep, according to the Chinese zodiac. The new year also marks the beginning of the Spring Festival in China, which continues until the Lantern Festival on the 15th day. -- By Lloyd YoungChinese artists perform a dragon dance at a local amusement park during celebrations for the Lunar New Year on Feb. 19 in Beijing, China.The Chinese Lunar New Year of the Sheep also known as the Spring Festival, which is based on the Lunisolar Chinese calendar, is celebrated from the first day of the first month of the lunar year and ends with Lantern Festival on the Fifteenth day. (Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)

The MBTA has been struggling to restore service after a massive amount of snow fell on the state, beginning with the blizzard in late January. Beverly Scott, MBTA general manager, said âtremendous progressâ had been made in an âabsolutely unbelievable recoveryâ effort. She also said that the commuter rail system is âstill having challenges,â operating at a little over 60 percent. Scott said the MBTA woes this winter had sounded several âwakeup calls,â and that the system needs more investment. A look back at our recent public transit woes, due to an unusually harsh winter. -- By Bill GreeneEarlier in February, a snow-covered third rail caused a T train in Quincy to get stuck. Passengers had to be evacuated by the Quincy Fire Department. (David L. Ryan/Globe Staff)

Pre-Lenten celebrations around the globe, including Carnival and Mardi Gras, wrapped up earlier this week before the marking of Ash Wednesday. Historians say the tradition dates back to Roman times, when the newly converted Christians retained vestiges of their pagan festival, âLupercalia,â as a period of celebration before the penance during the 40 days of Lent. -- By Lloyd YoungThe Queen of Panama City carnival Onissis Samaniego participates during a parade of the Panama City carnival in Panama City, Panama, on Feb. 16. (Alejandro Bolivar/EPA)

The Westminster Kennel Club 139th Annual Dog show took place this week, filling Manhattan with thousands of competitors, including 192 different canine breeds. Owners and dogs traveled from around the world to participate in this iconic event. -- By Leanne Burden SeidelJim Grieco, a cameraman for the USA Network, films Bloodhound Nathan in the benching area of the Westminster Kennel Club dog show, Feb. 16, at Madison Square Garden in New York. (Mary Altaffer/Associated Press)

In Japan, winter festivals in the past week make for interesting visual juxtapositions. Snow and Ice festivals display large illuminated sculptures for the public to enjoy. In Shingu, the end of winter is celebrated by thousand of men lighting torches on a mountain shrine. -- By Leanne Burden SeidelJapanese men wear Fundoshi, a traditional Japanese undergarment and pray during the purifying body wash ceremony ahead of attending the Oto fire festival. The male-only festival celebrates the close of winter and sees nearly 2000 men run down the 538 steep stone steps from the mountain shrine. The day begins at dusk with Noboriko preparing themselves by bathing in saltwater during a purifying ceremony on a beach in Oiigahama. (Chris McGrath/Getty Images)

The record-breaking snow amounts just keep piling up since the blizzard that hit the Northeast in late January, causing major commuting issues, damage to property, and sore backs across the region. -- By Lloyd YoungA long line formed in North Quincy Wednesday morning with commuters waiting for some 2 hours to take a shuttle bus to the JFK Red Line station. (David L. Ryan/Globe Staff)

The heavy fighting in Ukraine has returned this past month, with leaders around the world hoping for a diplomatic solution to the crisis. Photographers have captured the lives of the soldiers on both sides and the civilians living among the destruction and bloodshed. -- By Leanne Burden SeidelA woman cries as she waits for humanitarian aid near a Ukrainian serviceman stands nearby in Debaltseve, eastern Ukraine, Feb. 6. Convoys of buses converged from two sides on the town of Debaltseve in eastern Ukraine after separatist rebels and government forces appeared to have patched together a truce to allow civilians to be evacuated. (Gleb Garanich/Reuters)

Hereâs a look at just some of the best images taken by Globe photographers last month including the coverage of winter storms, a new governor taking office and the Patriots playoff run to the Super Bowl. -- By Lloyd YoungNoah Bicchieri, 29, and his dog, Caruso, walked through deep snow between houses on Plum Island. (Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff)

Thank you thank you thank you thank you. Thank you for stickin with me for however long you have stuck here. Gunshow was fun to do but I gotta do something else. I just have to. Thank you. Some important links for you: my main site, will soon be a easy way to check on what im doing. BACK is my other comic I am still doing with Anthony. We're just getting started with it. Pinocchio, a comic adaptation. While not...

It's christmas... What are you doing here? I guess readin' this final bit of the story huh? Thanks for taking time away from your family to look at this dumb comic. If you don't celebrate/care about Christmas, enjoy your day off and thanks for checking it anyway. You didn't have to, but you did! One more. I'll see you....

beep beep im on a road trip as of this writing! The final gunshows have been uploaded so don't worry! Enjoy the new year and follow me on twitter... unLESS I BLOCKED YOUPATREON! + BACK! PINOCCHIO! + STORE!...

Just a heads up: I took down the gunshow facebook page and will delete the gunshow twitter since I got no use for em anymore once Gunshow ceases to update at the end of the year. I feel like not a lot of people are realizing this is for true or just don't read this blog down here. OH WELL...

This is it... These are the final moments!! We go out with a story to sort of end off the office friends. This will last mostly all month up to the end. Just stick with us til then.PATREON! + BACK! PINOCCHIO! + STORE!...

Tycho: Apparently, Boston is being reverse terraformed. Initially I avoided looking for weather related information altogether, because I had been told that snow was a social construct and I didn’t want to reify it. But pictures of the town I have tilled up in my hesitant online searches are indistinguishable from Hoth, except for the super old woman shoveling her own walk all the way out to the fucking street, in the manner of a boss. Because I am super with it and together, and I never put things off or try to iterate a partially concocted scheme to gruesome effect, I have…...

Tycho: Because I’m still new to Monster Hunter, there’s a lot I don’t know. I could absolutely look for a FAQ and solve all this stuff immediately, like watching a Raid video, and then I could go in and try to emulate another person’s valor. When I hit a true wall - as opposed to being momentarily inconvenienced by my ineptitude - maybe I’ll hit it up. But not yet. I haven’t felt like this in a very, very long time. I apologize to Monster Hunter stalwarts here and elsewhere; I’m coming into your whole deal unprepared, but I want…...

Tycho: Don’t forget that KATIE RICE, winner of STRIP SEARCH and creator of CAMP WEEDONWANTCHA, is running a Kickstarter to get the first volume of Camp Weedonwantcha printed up. She’s probably over in her office worrying about it, right now. Let’s see what we can do about that. (CW)TB...

Tycho: I should hit up Reddit maybe, but I am fairly certain my co-conspirator is the only person willing to go on record as saying that The Order: 1886 is anything approaching a videogame. He wants me to play it very much, presumably so that I can join his very exclusive cult, but I watched a few YouTube clips and it seems like you don’t hack monsters apart and then make hats and weapons out of their guts and white bones. And that’s all I care about right now. So I’ll have to get back to him on that. And of course he wants to create some kind of…...

Gabe: I finished the Order: 1886 yesterday and I actually really liked the game. All told I think it took me about eight hours which is certainly on the short side but not criminally so. I tend to play games for the art more than the story and the Order is jam packed with beautiful art and smart design. The world they have rendered in this game is so incredible I canât wait to play another game in the setting. The Order: 1886 feels like the first movie in a trilogy to me. This is the origin story and the character we are left with at the end of the game is one I want to play as. The rest of…...

Tycho: We have to entertain, at least for a moment, the idea that he just wanted to draw Samus Aran. But he had also played Pokemon Shuffle in this new era of torrid, Nintendo lust inaugurated by the refresh to the 3DS hardware, and he was surprised to see the more or less “traditional” F2P grotesqueries on display. I know I just used the word “wooly” on Friday, but I gotta dust it off and get it back on the field: these conversations get “wooly” very quickly. Or, they did in the past. Let’s see if that’s still true: there was a…...

A maid who cleaned the home of former New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez has testified at his murder trial that she saw him "messing with" the security camera in his basement the day after the killing....

In what might be an unprecedented visit for how early it is occurring, quarterback Jameis Winston is in Tampa, Florida, on Tuesday for an all-day meeting with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the team confirmed....

Jameis Winston is meeting with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who are considering the Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback for the first pick in the NFL draft. The team confirmed the former Florida State star was in town Tuesday to sit down with club officials who will be involved in deciding whether to draft Winston. Marcus Mariota, the 2014 Heisman winner from Oregon, also is under consideration. Winston nor club officials spoke to the media....

Former fan favorite Vlade Divac has rejoined the Sacramento Kings as vice president of basketball and franchise operations, a job that will include advising the front office and coaching staff. The team announced Tuesday that Divac would assist in global and fan outreach initiatives and oversee the player development programs. The 47-year-old Divac will take a lead in talent evaluation and develop relationships between the team and European players. Divac retired from basketball in 2007 and served as president of the Serbian Olympic Committee two years later....

Kevin Durant will be out at least another week for the Oklahoma City Thunder, but Russell Westbrook could return Wednesday against the Philadelphia 76ers. Thunder coach Scott Brooks made the announcements Tuesday at practice. Westbrook, the All-Star MVP...

A maid who cleaned the home of former New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez has testified at his murder trial that she saw him ''messing with'' the security camera in his basement the day after the killing. Glaucia Santos said Tuesday that she was c...

Since Alex Rodriguez last stepped into a batter's box during a game, Boston and San Francisco have won World Series titles, the New York Yankees missed the playoffs in consecutive years and a new commissioner has taken office. A-Rod returns on Wednesday for his first game in 17 months, slated to be a designated hitter for two or three at-bats agains...

The NBA has suspended Houston star James Harden one game without pay for kicking LeBron James in the groin. The All-Stars and Olympic teammates became tangled in the third quarter of Houston's 105-103 victory over Cleveland on Sunday and Harden fell back to the court, then kicked his foot up into James. An an...

Last year a group of former Telltale and Disney employees came together to form Night School Studio. At GDC this morning, the indie developer unveiled its first project, "supernatural teen thriller" Oxenfree.
The studio's Telltale DNA is readily apparent from the trailer, with a focus on giving the player dialogue options and delivering an intriguing narrative. I'm really digging the vibrant, jade-heavy palette, and the two-dimensional gameplay allows for a lot of high quality artwork to serve as the backdrop. Perhaps that's the Disney influence in practice.
Oxenfree is set to release some time this year. No platforms have been confirmed, nor is it known if this will be release episodically or traditionally.
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The longer we go without a second season of Dark Dreams Don't Die, the more I realize how much I genuinely connected with Swery65's strange adventure game. What a tragedy it would be for this story to go unfinished. I need resolution, especially after seeing some of the wild fan theories.
While I wait (potentially forever), the guys at Mega64 recreated the look and feel of D4 for a video.
You're going to be totally lost if you haven't played it yet, but the skit should still be entertaining.
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There was drama last week surrounding the lack of splitscreen cooperative play in the Campaign and Raid Mode of Resident Evil: Revelations 2 for PC -- not only because that's a nice feature to have, but because Capcom "mistakenly" listed it in the product description on Steam. Whoops.
The company has since come back with an unexpectedly quick resolution. Local co-op can now be patched in (install instructions here), though the feature is in beta. There are known issues. "For anyone who isn't satisfied with this option, refunds are available through Steam," says Capcom.
I'm still trying to decide if I shou...

Indie developers make some cool as heck games, but they're not always so great at selling them. We want to them work on their pitch game until they're at Bumgarner levels and we want to take advantage of the the horrible, horrible GDC elevators that get gummed up with folks who don't know you're supposed to walk on the left, stand on the right.
First up is Nathan John, who is working on StandPoint. He's pitching Sonic 2. Would you buy it?
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[Update: The PlayStation Blog and its European sister-site have confirmed thew new additions. Meanwhile, eagle-eyed Twitter user @thebiglouie spotted Dishonored in the latter article's URL, suggesting Bethesda Softworks' stealth game was initially planned as one of this month's free games at some point. It looks like plans changed, which very well might be the reason why we didn't hear anything about this month's free games until the last minute.]
Sony has been acting weird about this month's PlayStation Plus lineup, refusing to discuss which titles are joining the Instant Game Collection today. It's a strange deve...

Epic unveiled its new free-to-use (with eventual royalties) pricing model for Unreal Engine 4 this week during the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, while Unity launched the new iteration of its engine, Unity 5, with a fine mustachioed gentleman chilling on a couch.
Well done, Unity.
The pricing and features for the new engine are broken down here. In short: Unity 5 Personal Edition is free (with no royalties) for "professional developers, indies, hobbyists, and studios with revenue under $100,000 and funding under $100,000"; Unity 5 Professional Edition is sticking with a $75 per month subscription fee, or $1,500 for a perpetual license. Love this competition.
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Like many games of its type, Oreshika: Tainted Bloodlines features a tiny graphic in its text boxes to remind players they can press a button to advance to the next line. Usually the graphic is of an X or O button pressing itself, but Oreshika's is of a little weasel pushing a button with its nose.
It's animated, and viewed from the side the little weasel can also look just like a person, sitting on their knees Japanese-style, bowing respectfully, over and over. That behavior's almost emblematic of the game's attitude, as it's so eager to let players do what they like (sometimes to their own detriment) that it almost comes off as desperate.
But hey, they're gonna be dead soon anyway, so perhaps some deference is warranted.
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How unfortunate. Warner Bros. and Avalanche Studios announced the release date for Mad Max on PC, PS4, and Xbox One: September 1 in North America, the same as Metal Gear Solid V, and September 4 in the United Kingdom. Also, the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions have been canceled.
As much as I love the Mad Max series, this game is already overshadowed in my mind by the upcoming film, Fury Road (that trailer!), and Avalanche's other in-development title, Just Cause 3.
And now MGS V? Dang.
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The Xbox One got HBO Go a few months back, and now it's the PS4's turn to join the party. Starting today, you can access the app on Sony's newest console. Just keep in mind that it still needs a cable subscription for now -- no word on when the standalone service is coming.
I generally watch a lot of HBO -- with some of my favorites like Boardwalk Empire concluded, I catch Girls, Looking, Togetherness, and John Oliver on Sundays. True Detective is coming up, and that show everyone and their grandma likes with a guy named Hodor is dropping in April too.
HBO GO Available on PS4 Later Today [PlayStation Blog]
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Edge recently interviewed Goichi "Suda51" Suda about the making of No More Heroes, which was coincidentally timed quite nicely with my own article about the game a few days ago. The interview covered Suda51's inspirations for creating No More Heroes, the time constraints which resulted in a less-than-stellar hub world and a ditched boss fight, and the game's surprising popularity outside of Japan.
But perhaps the most intriguing part of the interview was the revelation that they originally planned to end the first game with Travis's death. Sylvia would have shot him after his final ranked match, but in the end, they decided her deadly charm was enough to keep him under control.
I wonder what would have become of the franchise had they followed through with their original id...

Until last weekend, Helldivers was totally off my radar. Then my boss Stephen texted me on Sunday saying we should team up and play it. It was good, he said. It was like a tactical, sci-fi Diablo, he said. My interest was piqued.Read more......

Since its release last night, I've been playing the latest Five Nights at Freddy's non-stop. Here's what I've gathered, ranging from how the game works, to the secrets players have found hidden within.Read more......

This might be the weirdest story I've reported on in a while. Capcom announced local co-op for Resident Evil: Revelations 2 on PC before saying it was a mistake. Then, a modder added local co-op to the game in a matter of days. Now, Capcom is officially adding the feature themselves!Read more......

Solid Snake isn't the only one getting release dates today, as Warner Bros. and Avalanche Studios announced Mad Max will arrive on September 1 for Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC. The Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions have apparently been cancelled.Read more......

In its ongoing war against the toxic parts of League of Legends' community, developer Riot Games has kicked off a promising initiative to encourage teamwork and collaboration between players. For the next two weeks, people who play games with teams of friends are eligible for big Influence Points rewards.Read more......

Want to know what Markus Persson's life is like after selling Minecraft to Microsoft for $2.5 billion ? Forbes has a profile what the man known as Notch is up to now, including revelations that Activision and EA wanted to buy the iconic sandbox game. Read more......

Kickstarter has had a huge impact upon the development of mmorpg games since the crowdfunding site first began. If a gamer was excited about a game, they could actually help fund the development of that game directly. Conversely, developers could now go outside the usual cookie-cutter mold of online gaming and pitch a game that would appeal to a specific niche of gamers. One game that has had tremendous success in a very short time on Kickstarter is Crowfall. The response by gamers for the game has been through the roof, and the game has blown through its funding goal within just three days. Why is the Crowfall Kickstarter campaign so successful?...

Here they are, the N4G GOTY winners as chosen by YOU, the N4G users! That's right, all nominations and votes come from registered N4G users! Thousands of votes were cast and here we are, the games of 2014....

Christian from We Got This Covered wrote:
Stop me if youve heard this one before: in the future, Earth is at war with a recently discovered alien species, sending fully-armored space marines into various exotic battlegrounds to counter the enemys spreading influence. Yes, its a common trope in media for future Earthicans to be at war with an overpowering monster race, and Helldivers throws itself into the overpopulated ring with a self-aware Hoo-Ahh!...

GUY HAS SEIZURE WHILE SKYDIVING
Possibly the scariest moment of my life. On the 14th of November 2014 while doing stage five of my Accelerated Free Fall program I have a near death experience. At around 9000ft I have a seizure while attempting a left hand turn. I then spend the next 30 seconds in free fall unconscious. Thankfully my jumpmaster manages to pull my ripcord at around 4000ft. I become conscious at 3000 ft and land safely back to the ground.
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Jeremy Lin - A Day in the Life: All-Star Break
Hope you guys had a Happy Chinese New Year!
Hopefully the stories in this video encourage us to not jump to conclusions about individuals going through a time of homelessness, but to graciously love them and be willing to hear their stories.
I know meeting Louis, Kevin and Angel was an invaluable experience for me.
For more info on how to connect with your homeless neighbors get in contact with your local United Way (http://www.unitedway.org/).
And if you're in LA, sign up with the United Way of Greater LA's Companionship pro

This dog probably thought it had stumbled upon the Holy Grail when it found its oversized stick, but little did it know, such a fortune would come with a price. That price being, that it's really hard to carry a giant stick through a narrow fence ...

You mean youÂ haven't been anticipating a JCVD guest appearance on My Little Pony? Well, you're getting one anyways, because that's how the internet works. It gives you weird shit that you wouldn't expect to happen in a 100 lifetimes. Now watch Jean-Claude kick some magical pony ass.Â
Source: techpony
Jean-Claude released some fair-use green screen footage of himself doing action stunts earlier this year, and people got creative with it. Just in case you were wondering how this bizarre footage came into existence.Â
Pretty awesome and definitely magical, Â but still not as good as Bloodsport.Â
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There are few things I enjoy as much as watchng a hot plate of internet justice dished out to a deserving asshole. Jack Vale took it upon himself to call a phon...

Need a simple, cheap, and effective shortcut to success? Just pretend you have it already. This man is the ultimate testament to "act like you belong." And also "tuxedoed white guys can go anywhere."

French weather reporter Fanny Agostini had it rough the other week, when during a live weather report from Normandy she got pwned by Poseidon himself. I don't speak French, but I think she called th...

File under "butt-clenchingly terrifying." Watch this first-person POV of a real-life superhero save, that takes place while a skydiver has a seizure free-falling thousands of feet in the air.

There comes a day in every parent's life when they've got to let their little hatchling fly the nest. It's a poignant moment, one that SNL captured beautifully in this delicate commercial sketch. Is someone cutting onions in here?

When a crime is committed against an overly sensitive millennial, New York City's police call in a special squad of cops to deal with the case: the Overly Sensitive Victim's Unit. They want to catch the bad guys, but it's like, reeeaaallly difficult when the victim refuses to see race, or gender, or height, or really any sort of distinguishable charateristic at all.Â
Source: dangoodman
Look out, bad guys like this dirt bag are EVERYWHERE.Â
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MongoDB captivated developers in the way it is designed with the developer in mind â itâs just natural and intuitive for developers to use. On the theme of making things easier for developers, and with the growth of DevOps, there are a couple of exciting things in mind....

This article describes the configuration of the access log for Apache Tomcat 7 web server. A web server has the function to intercept user requests to resources, examine them and log them. This is an activity of web server administration. Tomcat provides components called valves that can be placed in the request-processing stream (intercept user requests) for logging access to resources. This is a Tomcat specific interception mechanism....

Whether your organization is looking at this already or not, the reality is that containers are going to become a common application-hosting framework. This has the potential to equal the excitement around PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service) architectures such as Cloud Foundry, Heroku, and OpenShift as examples. Where PaaS has opened the door for more compartmentalized, repeatable application deployment frameworks, containers will further enable multi-tier applications to thrive on any host using a common underlying container format....

So basiclly I want o loop through an error (what i already did) and print the other key
var planet = "sun";
var planets = [{
type: "sun",
desc: "sun"
}, {
type: "moon",
desc: "moon"}];
var pln = planets.length;
for (var i = 0; i < pln; i++) {
console.log(planets[i]);
}
How can i I find out if the var planet is in the array planets and print out the description from that key if so?...

I'm trying to create a dictionary by running through a for loop where it would have a description of a bacteria and the key being its DNA sequence. The only problem is that my variable cannot store multiple dataset and it just overwrites the first dataset, thus giving me only one output for my dictionary.
#reads a fasta file and seperates the description and dna sequences
for line in resistance_read:
if line.startswith(">"):
description = line
else:
sequence = line
#trying to get the output from the for loop and into the dictionary
bacteria_dict = {description:sequence}
Output:
line3description
dna3sequence
However, with the following code below, I am able to get all the outputs
for line in resistance_read:
if line.startswith(">"):
print line
else:
print line
Output:
line1description
line2description
line3descri...

Please go easy on me if this is a simple question (it's my first time asking one), I am still a beginner with libGDX and working on my first game.
Background:
I need to keep a list of "Gem" objects for a game I am working on in a list. Currently I am using an ArrayList, however I am using multiple helper methods. Unfortunately, because I am only using a generic ArrayList all of these helper methods have to be in my main game class.
My Question:
In an effort to keep my code as clean as possible, is there a way to override the entire ArrayList class just for my "Gem" object, so that I can add all of my helper methods, and still be able to use the Java defined ArrayList<> for other objects? Or do I have to create a type of pseudo ArrayList class that implements all the methods associated with an ArrayList? This just seems very tedious....

I know this is definitively a bad design, but at this moment, it is the only way how I can figure this out.
I have two arrays. One filled with string values, second one with integers for instance:
$array01 = array("apple", "bannana", "orange", "plum", "kiwi", "kiwi");
$array02 = array(2, 4, 3, 2, 1, 2);
Values are linked to each other.
apple - 2, bannana - 4, orange - 3, plum - 2, kiwi - 1, kiwi - 2.
As shown, values in each array may be duplicated (I can't remove redundance).
I need to sort the first array by alphabet ascending - but as you already know - I need to shake with the second array exactly as I shake with first array in order to sort it, so the values will match after the sort.
My question: Is there an easy way to do this? Or I simply have to write my own sort algorhytm? Note that I can not use any external libraries.
Thanks in advance!...

I want to all but one rows that contain the same data, the issue is the data is in multiple fields.
|id | ValA | ValB |
|1 | abc | abc |
|2 | abc | abc |
|3 | abc | def |
In the example table above i would want to delete the row with the ID 2, and kept 1 and 3.
The only solution I can find is using loops in PHP but I have 1.7 million records so I do not what to loop though all of these values.
I think the "SQL-way" will be sub querys but i cant work them out
Thanks...

I'm trying to convert my Date which is (eg. 2012-04-20 05:54:59) format in into mm-yyyy. I came across some solutions that says you would need to convert into varchar . Is there any way using the Convert function ?
Thanks :)...

This question already has an answer here:
What does the yield keyword do in Python?
19 answers
I wrote the following into the Python interpreter today:
>>> def test():
... for c in ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd']: yield c
...
>>> a = test()
>>> a
<generator object test at 0x2556a00>
>>> a.next()
'a'
>>> a.next()
'b'
This was surprising to me. Shouldn't test return (or yield) one of the elements in my list, not a generator which yields them?
A second function which uses "return" behaves as expected:
>>> def test2():
... for i in ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd']: return i
...
>>> b = test2()
>&g...

i know that before dereferencing any pointer variable it should points to valid memory location otherwise segmentation fault will occur such as this code example
int *ptr = 10;
int y = *ptr;
My question is what is meant by segmentation error and how to avoid it ?...

When it comes to small CNC carving machines for hackerspaces and extremely well-equipped garages, the Shapeoko, or something like it, has been the default machine. It’s dead simple – a Dremel attached to linear rails – and is useful for everything from milling PCBs to routing complex woodworking project to plotting designs with a pen. Now, [Bart Dring], the guy behind the Buildlog.net lasers and Inventables have teamed up to create the next generation of carving machines. It’s called the X-Carve, and while it’s fully compatible with the Shapeoko 2, it adds a few improvements that make for a much …read more...

More than one of our readers suggested we highlight thisÂ beautifully-shot process documentaryÂ about the laborious and precise manufacturing of piezoelectric quartz crystals in the early 1940s. Just a few years later, Bell Labs would perfect a method of growing synthetic crystals, sending droves of brave men and daintily-handed women from the Reeves Sound Laboratories to the unemployment line.
Early radio equipmentÂ relied upon tuned or L-C circuits for clocking. TheseÂ were prone to drift by a few kHz, which prompted the use of crystal oscillators for stable frequencies in the 1920s. The lives of our armed forces and those …read more...

Origami cranes are cool, but do you know what’s cooler? Origami cranes dancing to the beat. That’s the challengeÂ [Basami Sentaku]Â took on when he created Dancing Paper (YouTube link). You might rememberÂ [Basami] from hisÂ 8 bit harmonicaÂ hack. In Dancing Paper, paper cranes seem to dance all on their own – even performing some crazy spinning moves. Of course, the “magic” is due to some carefully written code, and magnets, lots of magnets.
Using magnets to move objects from below isn’t a new concept. Many of us have seen the “ice skating pond” Christmas decoration which uses the …read more...

By far the most common use for the Raspberry Pi is shoving a few dozen emulators on an SD card and calling it a day. Everybody’s got to start somewhere, right? There are other tiny, credit card-sized Linux boards out there, and [Andrew] is bringing the same functionality of the Raspi to the BeagleBone Black and BeagleBoard with BeagleSNES, an emulator for all the sane pre-N64 consoles.
BeagleSNES started as a class project in embedded system design, but the performance of simply porting SNES9X wasn’t very good by default. [Andrew] ended up hacking the bootloader and kernel, profiling the emulator, …read more...

There are apparently a lot of broken Nintendo DS Lites out and about on eBay, and [Fede] has gotten his hands on one. His idea was to essentially turn one of these DS Lites into a SS (single screen?) (.es, Google translate) by modding the case, and he’s done it with pretty spectacular results.
If you’re going to do a case mod, you should go all out. To that end, [Fede] started by taking everything out of the DS and tossing the original 1000 mAh battery in favor of a 4000 mAh battery. From there he is able to shoehorn …read more...

[shantea] builds MIDI controllers, and after a successful first endeavor with a matrix of buttons and knobs, he decided to branch out to something a little bit cooler. It’s called Ceylon, and it’s effectively a turntable controller built from an old hard drive.
As a contrast to the first MIDI controller, this would be a stripped-down build, with just three faders, LEDs for eye candy, a pair of pots for gain control, and a hard disk surrounded by six anti-vandal buttons. The hard disk is the star of the show, acting as a rotary encoder.
When manually spun, the hard …read more...

Running vintage console emulators on a Raspberry Pi seems to be the thing all the cool kids are doing.Â The coolest RetroPie builds take a vintage console – usually of the Nintendo genus – stuff a Raspi in there somehow, and Bob’s your uncle.Â [Phil Herlihy] over at Adafruit is throwing his hat into the ring withÂ a similar build. For this one, though, he’s using Sega’s oft-maligned Game Gear. He might actually get more than a few hours out of the battery with this one, and the battery is rechargeable, too. You can’t beat that.
The build begins with …read more...

The "cloud" is a common computing buzzword with multiple uses; you might store your music in the cloud, or perhaps host a website. But that doesn't mean there's one server hosting your siteârather, the individual servers of yore are being replaced with virtualized machines. It's the cloud.Read more......

Google is offering up a preview of the new version of Google Contacts today. Contacts gets a big visual overhaul to make it easier to manage your contacts and see everything you've been talking about. Read more......

Switching to organic apples because they top the "Dirty Dozen" list of produce with the most pesticides? You may want to reconsider. It turns out the "Dirty" foods are fairly clean, and organic foods aren't free of pesticides anyway.Read more......

Nobody likes a dumb typo, but thankfully, you can correct those mistakes if you make them on Instagram. It's a feature that's been around for a while, but it's a bit buried and you might not have noticed it. Read more......

If you're tired of your current job, it might be easier to switch to a new career if you build on the skills you already have and find a compatible career. The government's mySkills myFuture can help you there.Read more......

We've looked at BitTorrent Sync before as an alternative to Dropbox for sharing large files across your devices. Now, the service has updated to version 2.0 and with it comes a new Pro tier.Read more......

Neuroscientists and psychologists keep discovering more health benefits from mindfulness meditation. And luckily, it's a simple practice, that virtually anyone can do. But how do you get started, and how do you get the most rewards from the practice? Here's our quick and easy guide to meditating.Read more......

There are no classrooms that teach you basic hygiene growing up. Your parents may do what they can, but a surprising number of people make it to adulthood with gaps in their knowledge. We're here to help fill those gaps.Read more......

PONYCAN USA launched a few months back with two shows: Denki-Gai and Yuki Yuna is a Hero. Executive Director Kazuyoshi Fukuba answers a few questions about what to expect, and what's up with those prices....

The Outerhaven writes:
Part of the global reboot of Sailor Moon, Viz Media has been releasing Sailor Moon as dvds and blu-rays with a new, English dub that more closely follows the original Japanese ADV release. If youre from America, this is the first time you get the chance to own Season 1 uncut and in English. Originally, Sailor Moon was released by ADV(Japanese edition with English sub) and DiC (eviscerated English dub). Moonies who are only familiar with the DiC release may not feel at home with this new English dub since the DiC background music and Sailor Moon theme are absent and replaced by the original Japanese sound track. Reviews from Amazon seem to indicate that many Sailor Moon fans expected this to be a re-release of the original, botched English dub that they grew up with. Please be aware that this English dub is more true to the version of Sailor Moon that aired in Japan. Instead of being critical, fans need to embrace this new dvd set with the understanding t......

So I was reading Harukami Murakamis Underground and while I was digesting its content, a point struck me that made me think of Psycho-Pass. For those who arent familiar with him, Murakami is a novelist. Post-modernism is a pretty broad and oft ambiguous genre of storytelling, and Murakami in particular is well-known in contemporary literature for his post-modern brand of literary treatment. If theres one common thread in the post-modern literary genre that could be pinned out, its that it often entails a challenge to the status quo, a shakedown of the assumptions that people take for granted: about themselves, the world, and their place within it.
In one way, Underground is a departure. Murakamis career up until then was in fiction, not non-fiction. In another, it is not. Many of Murakamis works deal with the recurring thread of the underground, the underworld that, if not quite belies, runs underneath, clandestine, interior to the exterior of the trappings of the external......

Seidou enters the fall tournament with a new ace and a new lineup.
What They Say:
September Sky
I want to pitch to that mitt again A meeting with catcher Kazuya Miyuki changed the 15-year-old Eijun Sawamuras life. He said goodbye to all his friends and knocked upon the door of Seidou, a prestigious baseball school, intent on testing his own strength. There, he met many proud baseball players who were betting everything on the sport! A classic tale, yet new and fresh. All the emotion and excitement of the popular baseball manga is at last coming to television in the form of an anime!...

Goo recently published published the results of a survey in which they worked with advertising company iBridge to conduct a survey of 250 male and 250 female concerning the best cerebral, whether it stimulated the mind with psychological warfare and battles of wit, mystery, problem solving, serious ethical and metaphysical questions or all of the above....

Yona decides to take a stand by going undercover to rescue the captive citizens.
What They Say:
Episode 20: Chain of Courage
The Review
Content: (please note that content portions of a review may contain spoilers)
A plan is hatched. The pirates will strike at the fleet out on open water away from the town. Gigan believes that Lord Kumji is selling women and children into slavery in a neighboring kingdom, and that one of the ships is likely to hold the captives. One against seven isnt exactly great odds, but three dragons and a general are a force to be reckoned with....

Disappointment turns into despair as the Parasyte adaptation tries to get its message across in the most hamfisted way possible.
What They Say:
They arrived in silence and darkness, descending from the skies with a hunger for human flesh. Parasites alien creatures who must invade and take control of a human host to survive have come to Earth. No one knows their secret except high school student, Shinichi Izumi, whos right hand has been invaded by an alien parasite. Shinichi and Migi, the parasite in his hand, begrudgingly form a friendship and find themselves caught in the middle of a war between humans and parasites....

Lee and Shira face off in great form!
What They Say:
Lee challenges Shira to a battle between taijutsu users!
The Review:
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The second part of the Chunin Exam spent a good bit of its time with Lee the last episode as things got serious for him with the action component of it. It wasnt bad to be sure, but it suffered from the problem of just being all too familiar as Lees struggles are very well documented in the Naruto world. Even more so because of his spin-off series. With a good bit of original material still ahead of us, its no surprise that many fans get into a particular mindset in order to cope with it. While a good number simply abandon the series for the duration, the rest of us work our way through it. Luckily, so far at least, the material has been decent and not insulting as a lot of the original material can be. And that can help minimize the pain when you get down to it, especially si......

Its good v. evil!
What They Say:
Unbreakable Heart
In the quarterfinals of the Gunpla Battle Japanese Championship, the showdown between Sekai Kamiki and Junya Inose, who are both students of the Jigen Haoh school of kenpo, has reached ferocious heights. To break the stalemate, Sekai activates the Burning Burst, but Junya activates his own Burning Burst as well. Even the original Gunpla technique that Sekai created is completely overcome. As he faces Junya, who is obsessed with the ultimate strength and seeks the extremes of strength to satisfy his own desires, Sekai continues to pursue his own kind of strength with a pure and earnest will. Putting their respective beliefs and feelings into their fists, the two combatants clash on. Sekai is hard-pressed by their difference in experience, and by Junyas unfair attacks. But just as his consciousness fades due to the painful backlash of assimilation, Sekai is guided by a miraculous radiance....

AnimeLab continues its expansion of streaming properties as the Australian and New Zealand based service now has the twenty-five episode run of Oreimo on its available to its members. The company has the first twelve episode season from 2010 and then the second thirteen episode season from 2013, but not any of the OVA material that helps to bridge certain aspects of things....